21st-century French people

Francis_Mourey

Francis Mourey (born 8 December 1980) is a French former professional cyclo-cross and road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2017.
He won the 2013 Tro-Bro Léon, leading home an FDJ clean sweep of the podium as teammates Johan Le Bon and Anthony Geslin followed him across the finish line. In October 2015 Mourey announced that he would leave FDJ and join Fortuneo–Vital Concept for the 2016 season, reuniting him with former FDJ teammates Pierrick Fédrigo, Yauheni Hutarovich and Arnaud Gérard.

Yann_Cucherat

Yann Cucherat (born 2 October 1979) is a French gymnast. He won a bronze medal in parallel bars at the 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He competed at the 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics.

Philippe_Cavoret

Philippe Cavoret (born 11 January 1968 in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie) is a French skeleton racer who competed from 1992 to 2006. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 14th in the men's skeleton event at Turin in 2006.
Cavoret's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was seventh twice in the men's skeleton event (2003, 2005). He retired after the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Cédric_Burdet

Cédric Burdet (born 15 November 1974 in Belley, Ain) is a retired French handball player who played most of his career in French handball team Montpellier HB until his retirement in 2009 (with a national championship victory).
His career with the national team (from 1997 to 2008) included three Olympic Games, including winning the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he was instrumental to the victory of France against Croatia in the semi-finals where he scored 5 goals in the first half, and in the final against Iceland, where he scored 4 goals.

Frederic_Delcourt

Frédéric Delcourt (born 14 February 1964) is a French former competition swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.
Delcourt was born in Nord, France.He competed in three events for France at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia, including swimming the backstroke leg for the fifth-place French men's 4x100-meter medley relay team. Delcourt won the silver medal in the men's 200-meter backstroke event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.Delcourt attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he swam for coach Randy Reese's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition in 1984.

Jacky_Boxberger

Jacques "Jacky" Boxberger (16 April 1949 – 9 August 2001) was a track and field athlete from France who specialized in long-distance races.
He was the great hope of French middle-distance running, breaking the junior world record in the 1500 metres at Stade Charléty in 1968. He represented France at the 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics, placing sixth in the 1968 1500 metres and 42nd in the 1984 marathon. He also won the Paris Marathon in 1983 and 1985, the 1500 metres title at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships, the Marrakech Marathon in 1987, and French titles in the 1500 metres, 5000 metres, and 10000 metres. He suffered a knee injury during his military service with the Joinville battalion. His career was the most brilliant among male French distance runners of his era behind only that of former world mile record-holder Michel Jazy.Boxberger was part of the French team that finished third at the World Cross Country Championships in 1976.
In 2001, Boxberger was on vacation with his family in Kenya. While he was trying to film an elephant on a safari, the animal picked him up with its trunk, threw him against a tree, and trampled him to death.The middle distance runner Ophélie Claude-Boxberger is his daughter.